Home 3D news Selena Gomez used a mobile 3D scanning ‘spaceship on wheels’ that trained 200 cameras for her ‘Past Life’ music video

Selena Gomez used a mobile 3D scanning ‘spaceship on wheels’ that trained 200 cameras for her ‘Past Life’ music video

by Peeters

A screenshot from Selena Gomez’s new video shows how the Scan Truck system incorporated close-up images of the singer’s face into her surrealistic new music video. 

The music video for artist Selena Gomez’s new song “Past Life” features sweeping views of mountainsides and seascapes, at first glance. But upon looking more closely, you’ll notice what appears to be an ear embedded in a cliff here, or a row of eyelashes in the distance there.

It turns out close up views of the singer’s face do indeed star in the surrealistic music video, thanks to a 3D scanning service favored by the industry. In a post tweeted Thursday, Gomez explained how the Scan Truck works. 

“I stepped into it on my own and it scanned my face up close, which is why the music video looks so real!” she tweeted. Gomez’s new song also features Trevor Daniel.

According to the Scan Truck website, the system is a “3D scanning spaceship on wheels” that acts as a “mobile photogrammetry studio” for movies, video games, commercials, and more. The mobile studio features 200 DSLR cameras trained on the subject to capture photorealistic scans, which are then incorporated into a 3D generated concept. The company’s portfolio includes Marvel’s currently stalled “Black Widow,” “Us,” “Venom,” “The Avengers: Endgame,” and more.

With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting productions and projects across various sectors, artists are having to get creative with how they, well, create. 

You can watch Gomez and Daniels’ new music video below.

Source: Business Insider

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